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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Mollusca (phylum)  »  Gastropoda (class)  »  Sacoglossa (order)  »  Plakobranchidae (family)

CAAB Code:	24 371018 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Elysia expansa   (O'Donoghue, 1924)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.) Family: 24 371 Plakobranchidae (sealsugs) - show full list Common Name: [a sea slug] Organism Type: a sea slug Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 24 371901     Elysia spp.

Scientific Name Notes:	The type locality of this species is the Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, but WoRMS mistakenly lists the type locality as the Abrolhos Islands, Brazil in the western South Atlantic.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:c3971250-7329-4d2f-b78b-7917368ba76e Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:494443 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Jensen, K.R., 1993. Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) from Rottnest Island and central Western Australia. In: Wells, F.E. Walker, D.I. Kirkman, H. Lethbridge, R., Editors, The Marine Flora and Fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia., 1: 207-253. Western Australian Museum, Perth 330pp.
Scientific Name verified against:	WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.